Classic Rock News

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the sequel to 1984’s mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, is hitting theaters Sept. 12, but some fans will get a chance to see it a couple days early thanks to a very special IMAX screening.

Dubbed the On, Off, and Around the Record Live Event, the screening will include an exclusive Q&A with director Rob Reiner, in character as documentary filmmaker Marty DiBergi. He’ll be joined by Spinal Tap band members David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls aka Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer, respectively.

The event will be held Sept. 10 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles and will stream live in theaters across the country.

Tickets are on sale now.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues will follow the band as they reunite after 15 years for a final concert. It will feature cameos from Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Books, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich and more.

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In what’s perhaps the clearest indication that Billy Joel will be spending most of his time in Florida in the future, his motorcycle shop in Oyster Bay, Long Island, is closing down.

Newsday reports that 20th Century Cycles, which opened in 2010 and housed the Piano Man’s collection of more than 75 vintage motorcycles, will not be renewing its lease when it expires at the end of September. Billy will be auctioning the bike collection later in 2025, his publicist tells Newsday, due to his “recent medical issue.”

The store remains open on Saturdays and Sundays in August, and is currently selling off its collection of motorcycle parts. All the actual bikes, which were always free for the public to view, have been removed from the location.

When he first opened 20th Century Cycles, Billy told Newsday that he wanted to create a “focus point” for people “aimlessly riding around on weekends.” In 2023, part of the street where the shop is located was renamed Billy Joel Way.

Billy also has his nearby Long Island mansion on the market for just under $30 million, but told fans at his concert on Dec. 31, 2023, that he’s keeping his other home in the upscale village of Sag Harbor, Long Island. He added, “I’m just gonna spend a little more time in Florida, like old Jewish guys from Long Island do.”

In other Billy Joel news, his daughter Della Rose Joel turns 10 on Tuesday. A note on Instagram reads, “We are so proud of your sweet nature, empathy for others and endless love. You see everything through caring eyes. We could not ask for anything more. We all love you beyond measure. How did we get to 10 years already?”

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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is set to kick off his summer tour with his band The Joe Perry Project, and he’s just announced a last-minute lineup change.

The tour was supposed to feature Stone Temple Pilots’ Eric Kretz on drums, but in a post on Instagram, Perry revealed that Kretz is no longer able to participate in the tour “due to a family emergency.”

The post noted, “Longtime JPP drummer Jason Sutter will join the band for the immediate future and Eric looks forward to rejoining the tour as soon as he is able.”

The Joe Perry Project tour begins Wednesday in Tampa and wraps Aug. 23 in Port Chester, New York. They are also opening two dates on The Who‘s The Song Is Over North American Farewell Tour, Aug. 26 in Boston and Sept. 17 in Los Angeles.

Joining Perry on the road will be his Aerosmith bandmate Brad Whitford; Buck Johnson, who’s been part of Aerosmith’s touring band since 2014; The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson; and Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo.

A complete list of dates can be found at JoePerry.com.

Perry formed The Joe Perry Project back in 1979 after his departure from Aerosmith. They released three albums before Perry returned to Aerosmith in 1984. He last toured as The Joe Perry Project in 2023.

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John Fogerty is sticking up for Bruce Springsteen.

During an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Music Now podcast, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer expressed his support for Bruce calling out President Donald Trump during his concerts in Europe.

“I’m really proud of Bruce for just sticking up for his values [and] not being afraid to voice them,” Fogerty says.

Trump responded to Springsteen’s comments on Truth Social, calling him “Highly Overrated.”

Fogerty says that even though he thinks Trump is “very similar” to President Richard Nixon, Nixon would have known better than to call out Springsteen for what he said.

“President Nixon would’ve realized not to give the other side publicity by acknowledging and talking about it,” he tells the podcast. “Cause you just make it more famous when you do that.”

Fogerty is set to release his new album, Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years, on Aug. 22, featuring rerecorded versions of his CCR classics. While Fogerty had a rocky relationship with his bandmates following their acrimonious split in 1972, he still recognizes that what they had was something special.

“Those are the four people that made those records,” he says on the podcast, talking about his bandmates Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford. “And that didn’t particularly happen again in history. So obviously those four human beings are unique human beings.”

He adds, “I still give a lot of credit to the way something like ‘Proud Mary’ feels or ‘Born on the Bayou.’ And there is mystery in that — there’s a mysterious aura or ingredient that I’m not gonna sit here and say was in my pocket.”

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Patti Smith has unveiled the cover of her next memoir, Bread of Angels.

The “People Have the Power” singer revealed the cover on Instagram, writing that it features a “graceful photograph” taken by artist Robert Mapplethorpe in 1979.

She adds that the photo was taken “in the same room where he shot the Horses cover,” referring to her 1975 debut album.

“This cover is a beautiful way to continue our lifelong collaboration,” she adds.

“Robert Mapplethorpe took this photograph at a deeply transitional moment. It was between the end of my public life as a performer and the beginning of my time in Detroit with my one true love, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith,” she tells Vanity Fair. “Robert had taken an image with doves for the cover of the (1979) album Wave. Afterwards, I asked him to take another that would reflect the sentiment of the song ‘Dancing Barefoot,’ a love song for Fred and a farewell to the people. This is the photograph he took.”

Smith is set to release Bread of Angels on Nov. 4. It is available for preorder now.

Bread of Angels comes 15 years after the release of Smith’s first memoir, Just Kids, which documented her time in Manhattan in the ’70s and her relationship Mapplethorpe. It won the National Book Award in 2010.

According to the description, Bread of Angels is “the most intimate” of Smith’s memoirs, following the musician through her childhood in Philadelphia and South Jersey, her teenage years “when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold,” her marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith and their family life, and more.

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One of Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitars is going up for auction in September.

The rocker’s Kramer Electric, 1982, which is based on his original “Frankenstein” guitar and features Van Halen’s well-known black-and-white stripe abstract design, will be up for auction as part of Sotheby’s Grails Week.

The guitar, which Eddie played on tour in 1982 and 1983, features Eddie’s signature with a note to his guitar tech Rudy Leiren that reads, “Rude – Its Been a Great Ten Years – Lets Do Another Ten. Eddie Van Halen.” The back of the headstock reads, “#1 Edward Van Halen Model.”

Leiren sold the guitar to Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars, who used it during several recordings, including their 1989 album Dr Feelgood. It comes with a case and note from Mars that reads, “hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Also it’s a great piece of history.”

Grails Week, described as a “celebration of popular culture,” is taking place at Sotheby’s New York Sept. 22-Oct. 28. The sale of Van Halen’s guitar will open on Sept. 24 at 12 p.m. ET; it is estimated to sell for between $2 million and $3 million.

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Led Zeppelin has shared a remastered version of their track “Houses of the Holy,” which will be part of the upcoming 50th anniversary celebration of their classic album Physical Graffiti.

“Houses of the Holy” is one of several remastered Physical Graffiti tracks Led Zeppelin has recently posted on their official YouTube page. They previously shared “In My Time of Dying,” “The Rover” and “Custard Pie.”

Led Zeppelin announced in July they will mark the album’s anniversary with the release of a new live EP, titled Live EP. It will feature performances of four songs: “In My Time of Dying” and “Trampled Underfoot,” both recorded live at London’s Earls Court in 1975; and “Sick Again” and “Kashmir,” both recorded at the Knebworth Festival in England in 1979.

The remastered songs are part of an updated release of 2015’s three-LP Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition, which includes the remastered version of the album, a bonus album featuring rough mixes and early versions of songs, and a new replica Physical Graffiti poster.

Both releases are due out Sept. 12 and are available for preorder now.

Physical Graffiti, released on Feb. 24, 1975, was Led Zeppelin’s first album to be released under their Swan Song Records label. The record, produced by Jimmy Page, spent six weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was the first album to go Platinum from preorders alone and has since been certified 17-times Platinum in the U.S.

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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are getting their fans excited for some more news.

The pair shared a tease on Instagram featuring a radio playing the song “Don’t Let Me Down Again,” with the caption “Wednesday.”

“Don’t Let Me Down Again” was the first single from the Fleetwood Mac stars’ only studio album as a duo, 1973’s Buckingham Nicks. The album is being released Sept. 19, digitally and on CD, with newly remastered sound. This will mark the first-ever reissue of the album, which has been unavailable for decades.

Before officially announcing the reissue, Buckingham and Nicks teased the project with complimentary posts on social media, with each sharing a lyric to “Frozen Love,” another song from the album.

While Buckingham Nicks wasn’t a commercial success, shortly after the release Mick Fleetwood heard a track from the album and was so impressed he invited Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham insisted his then-girlfriend Nicks come with him, and the pair officially joined the band on New Year’s Eve 1974.

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One of the surprises of the HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes is its extensive interview material with Billy’s first wife, muse and former manager Elizabeth Weber. Since they divorced in 1982, Billy has gone on to marry three more times. So what’s their relationship like now?

“[Our relationship] is as close as it needs to be for two people who decided to divorce 40 years ago,” Weber tells US Weekly. She says “of course” she reached out to Billy following the news of his recent brain disorder diagnosis. 

“If I wanna talk to him or if I have something to say, I am able to contact him whenever I want to,” she tells US. “But he has a wife and he has children and right now, he’s struggling with something that’s… that’s a big thing.”

Billy and Elizabeth became involved when she was married to his best friend and bandmate Jon Small, with whom she had a son, Sean Weber-Small. She and Billy wed in 1973 and, Elizabeth says, Sean and Billy “were very close” during their marriage, and they still have a relationship.

“I have my grandchildren that [Billy] knows and they know him,” Elizabeth says. “My granddaughter Ella taught Bill what TikTok was and showed him what was happening. And his relationship with Sean is important to both of them.”

“So, we’re not distant but we’re, you know … he lives in Florida and I live in California. But it’s all good.”

Billy is currently married to his fourth wife, Alexis Roderick; they have two daughters, Della Rose Joel and Remy Anne Joel. He was also married to Katie Lee and to Christie Brinkely, with whom he shares daughter Alexa Ray Joel.

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Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant recently announced he’ll be releasing his first-ever album with his acoustic band Saving Grace, and now the artists are set to celebrate the album with some intimate shows in London.

Plant and Saving Grace have announced two concerts at the Circuit nightclub in Kingston, London, on Sept. 28 — one at 5 p.m. and one at 7 p.m.

The album, Saving Grace, will be released Sept. 26 and has Plant backed by drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, cellist Barney Morse Brown, and banjo and string player Matt Worley. They’ll be joined by vocalist Suzi Dian.

Tickets for the concerts will be sold in a bundle with the album, starting Tuesday at 11 a.m. BST for the 7 p.m. show. Tickets for the earlier show will go on sale Tuesday at 1 p.m. 

In addition to the new London shows, Plant and Saving Grace are bringing their show to the U.S. for the very first time. Their fall tour is set to kick off Oct. 30 in Wheeling, West Virginia, and wrap Nov. 22 in Los Angeles. A complete list of dates can be found at RobertPlant.com.

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